Forum Feed in Groups never displays

Hi,

Using 7.2.1. I'm testing Groups. I created a group, worked. I added a forum, worked. I go back to the group, the description, photos all OK. Comments displays.

Under those is "Forum Feed" but that never stops circling:

http://prntscr.com/9i8v92

Any ideas what this could be and/or how I can trouble-shoot ?

Thanks.

Please check the following:

- if any other feeds are working, for example forums feed on homepage and boonex news feed

- check if you have any JS error on the page where feed isn't working

- try to check browser's network console for the output from the request to get_rss_feed.php file

Hi Alex. Thank you kindly for your reply.

1. I have tried the forum feed on the homepage and it doesn't display anything, the same as in this error report.

I have checked the back end administration, and I am seeing the Boonex news feed and Featured Modules feed correctly.

2. The only JS error I see on that page is:

which is for the Google Maps API and nothing really to do with the Forums feed. The above is likely something to be fixed in Dolphin at a later stage.

3. For this, I get the response:

• no element found

I will email you privately / directly with the URL as the site isn't officially on-line yet.

Please advise what the problem could be. Thank you.

If it is group's forum feed, then view forum privacy should be public, so it can be displayed.

Hi Alex. I appreciate your response. Yes the "Forum Feed" block is part of the Group, so I've gone into every group and changed the "View Forum" to "Public", then back to the group to see the effect on the "Forum Feed" block, unfortunately this doesn't seem to have fixed it.

I'm still getting no result from the "Forum Feed" block?

Please advise. Thank you.

Do you have any posts in the forum you are viewing RSS feed from ? 

Hi Alex,

In one of the Groups I created, I have posted 3 topics. Next to the "New Topic" area I click on RSS, and the topics show up in the browser as a normal RSS feed, so the RSS feed is available.

Would you like access to the site to take a look ? I can email you privately with credentials, it may be easier/faster than the forums.

Yes, please, send me the details via private messages here on boonex.com

Hi Alex. Details sent. Hopefully you'll be able to find a fix or what's wrong.

It looks that your server can't fetch URLs which points to itself. 

Some servers especially block such requests, you can contact your hosting support to allow such requests, also sometimes helps if you add the following line to your /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 your-domain.com www.your-domain.com

Hi Alex.

Could you please provide me an example of the URL being fetched by that block?

eg:

https://www.example.com/blah/???

I setup the hosting server and am an infrastructure person, so if I know the above I can trouble-shoot from there.

I added the domain for 127.0.0.1 but to no avail unfortunately (I kept localhost.localdomain also on the same line, it would cause networking issues to remove those).

So mine looks like:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 your-domain.com www.your-domain.com

127.0.0.1 your-domain.com www.your-domain.com

You can try to open any page of your site from the console browser (lynx or links), for example:

links http://example.com

To place it on one line should be ok, also you can have multiple entries for one IP, for example:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 
127.0.0.1 your-domain.com www.your-domain.com

Hi Alex. When I try and open the site with links I get "SSL Error". Makes no sense as the Web browsers work fine (Firefox, Chrome, IE).

I have the site changed in header.inc.php to be https:// so it's SSL allover, yet "links" fails to even go there.

I have noticed no other problems with a full SSL enabled site other than the Forum feed module.

I have changed the site back to non-SSL, cleared the cache, and the forum feed works again.

This is a real worry/problem, since I plan on having people login securely, pay for items securely, and other things to perform securely. The whole site doesn't have to be SSL enabled, but I don't mind if it is even if there's a small speed hit (I've actually overcome that through caching anyway).

I see a forum here which seems to allow for SSL on certain pages:

https://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/SSL-on-Dolphin-7-0-2.htm

but not sure if any of this will work with 7.2.1

What's your advice?

I would rather have the whole site SSL enabled, so if Dolphin is meant to support full SSL please advise the best way to do it. All I did before was changed the URL in header.inc.php, no .htaccess changes.

links http://example.com

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 
127.0.0.1 your-domain.com www.your-domain.com

We noticed problems with fetching https url on some systems (Windows) which has no build-in certificates.

We've already included certificate in the case it is missing.

Please update your bx_file_get_contents function from the repository:

https://github.com/boonex/dolphin.pro/blob/master/inc/utils.inc.php#L1176

Also you need to download certificate file:

https://github.com/boonex/dolphin.pro/blob/master/plugins/curl/cacert.pem